Amy Lowell (Author of Selected Poems of Amy Lowell)

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Amy Lowell

Born

in Brookline, Massachussets, The United States

February 09, 1874

Died

May 12, 1925

Genre

Poetry

Influences

Ezra Pound, John Keats ...more

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A leader of the imagists, American poet Amy Lawrence Lowell wrote several volumes, including Sword Blades and Poppy Seed (1914).

A mother bore Amy into a prominent family. Percival Lowell, her brother and a famous astronomer, predicted the existence of the dwarf planet Pluto; Abbott Lawrence Lowell, another brother, served as president of Harvard University.

The Lowell family deemed not proper attendance at college for a woman, who instead compensated with her avid reading to nearly obsessive book collecting. She lived as a socialite and traveled widely; a performance of Eleonora Duse in Europe inspired her, who afterward turned in 1902. In 1910, Atlantic Monthly first published her work.

She published A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass , ...more

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	Selected Poems of Amy Lowell by Amy Lowell, Melissa Bradshaw (Editor) 4.07 avg rating — 276 ratings — published 1927 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sword Blades and Poppy Seed 3.98 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 1914 — 129 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Poetical Works of Amy Lowell 4.48 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 1955 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Dome Of Many Colored Glass 3.68 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 1912 — 109 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Imagist Poets: A Collection of Imagist Poetry by Amy Lowell, James Joyce, Ezra Pound 4.16 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Some Imagist Poets: An Anthology 3.36 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 1931 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pictures of the Floating World 4.14 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 1919 — 79 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Men, Women and Ghosts 3.54 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1916 — 117 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What's O'Clock 3.85 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1925 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Patterns 3.87 avg rating — 23 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“All books are either dreams or swords,
You can cut, or you can drug, with words. ”
― Amy Lowell, Selected Poems of Amy Lowell

tags: books, dreams

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“I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against
The want of you;
Of squeezing it into little inkdrops,
And posting it.”
― Amy Lowell, The Complete Poetical Works of Amy Lowell

tags: love, poetry

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“A black cat among roses,
phlox, lilac-misted under a quarter moon,
the sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still.
It is dazed with moonlight,
contented with perfume...”
― Amy Lowell

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